Re: [REGRESSION in 3.18][PPC] PA Semi fails to boot after: of/base: Fix PowerPC address parsing hack

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Fri Mar 06 2015 - 18:01:11 EST


On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 10:00 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 15:18:42 +1100
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > Can you shoot me the DT (/proc/device-tree in a tarball) ?
>
> Attached.

This is indeed a bug in their DT. We might want to add quirks for
that unless it can be fixed (or has been via FW update). Olof ?

In the meantime, try that patch:

diff --git a/drivers/of/address.c b/drivers/of/address.c
index ad29069..78a7dcb 100644
--- a/drivers/of/address.c
+++ b/drivers/of/address.c
@@ -450,12 +450,17 @@ static struct of_bus *of_match_bus(struct device_node *np)
return NULL;
}

-static int of_empty_ranges_quirk(void)
+static int of_empty_ranges_quirk(struct device_node *np)
{
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC)) {
- /* To save cycles, we cache the result */
+ /* To save cycles, we cache the result for global "Mac" setting */
static int quirk_state = -1;

+ /* PA-SEMI sdc DT bug */
+ if (of_device_is_compatible(np, "1682m-sdc"))
+ return true;
+
+ /* Make quirk cached */
if (quirk_state < 0)
quirk_state =
of_machine_is_compatible("Power Macintosh") ||
@@ -490,7 +495,7 @@ static int of_translate_one(struct device_node *parent, struct of_bus *bus,
* This code is only enabled on powerpc. --gcl
*/
ranges = of_get_property(parent, rprop, &rlen);
- if (ranges == NULL && !of_empty_ranges_quirk()) {
+ if (ranges == NULL && !of_empty_ranges_quirk(parent)) {
pr_debug("OF: no ranges; cannot translate\n");
return 1;
}


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